The European Convention: bargaining in the shadow of rhetoric.

   The European Convention on the Future of Europe was initially 
   presented as a turning point in the history of European integration. 
   This article argues that, although its composition was broader, its 
   process more transparent and its rules more flexible than classic 
   intergovernmental conferences, the Convention was not Europe's 
   Philadelphia. Since it took place under the shadow of the IGC and 
   under a leadership especially sensitive to the positions of big 
   member states, the Convention reproduced, by extension, the logic 
   of intergovernmental bargains. Nevertheless, some of the 
   Convention's outcome--the most formal aspects of its draft treaty 
   with ...

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